Tandro

Hi Scott, I saw on your website that Hector made mention of that book, 'Fingerboard Harmony' by Gary Willis'. Its funny cause that is exactly what I was thinking about when I started watching your tutorials, because I bought it a few weeks ago and am slowly reading through it. When I saw this post on arpeggios I was drawn to it as that is what I am trying to understand and learn (from the book). Its nice to see someone like you who understands these concepts put them in a video to explain it further and help our understanding. I'm still trying to understand how to apply them in the real world (without it sounding like an arpeggio exercise!), but it will take some time (and much practice) before I can internalize this stuff. Thanks again for your lessons...

Hi to Everyone, Just registered and figured I should introduce myself. I started playing bass years ago. Learned on acoustic guitar (as that was my only introduction to anything with strings) but 'always' with the intention of playing bass when I could actually afford an instrument! At that time I was the only person I knew who actually 'wanted' to play bass. Had a band with some friends, just mainly for our amusement but its was an absolute blast. We played music together and surfed together. For various reasons as many people could say, I stoped playing. Fast forward to late last year, and I got the desire to start playing again after I saw my idol Victor Wooten at the London Jazz festival (might I say that was awesome, as it was the Flecktones and they were billed with Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Lenny White). I started hanging around Denmark Street for no apparent reason, recently buying Bass Guitar Magazine and taking in playbassnow.com. I wish I had gear to speak of, but nope. I got a 'bass' (duh), but I have my heart set on getting a warwick...I should have never ever visited the gear porn section. I like any type of music really, and love live music. I grew up on Dub (reggae dancehall) where the song is basically 2 chords and the entire bassline is 3 notes throughout the song ad inifitum, but I loved it. My head could not stop boping to the bass line and that was it for me. I am listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra as I write this, met my idol Victor a couple months ago and even got to hold his bass!!!, saw Pearl Jam a couple weeks ago, and going to see Stanley Clarke and Bella Fleck this week coming. I am very much a newbie! I have forgotten most everything I used to play. But my focus since starting back is to learn to sight read, I need to achieve that. Anyway thats it basically...darn that was kinda long, sorry. Hope to learn stuff here and get new ideas. Anyways, off to have a Sunday Lunch... Tandro